Day of Pentecost: SHAVUOT

Photo of bright sunflowers seen on the mountainside on my hike on May 26. 2011 

"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,

and it filled all the house where they were sitting."

Acts 2:1-3

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180 degree panaroma on Lookout Peak looking west into the Salt Lake Valley

(far left is Mt. Olympus and far right is Bountiful)

 180 degree panarama looking East toward Park City (far right is Immigration Canyon)

"And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount:

and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up."
Exodus 19:20

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 A Hawk that hoovered over me for several minutes as I was ascending to the summit of the mountain.

"And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove,

and it abode upon him."

John 1:32

Yesterday  (using the sun/solitice calendar for the Jewish holidays) was the Day of Pentecost. This day is historically and symbolicallly related to the Jewish harvest festival of Shavuot, which commemorates God giving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai fifty days after the exodus. It is 50 days after the Feast of the Passover.  It is also one of the day commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the Resurrection.

This day is also called the feast of the harvest and lasted for a single day, which was a day of holy convocation. Special sacrifices were made and freewill offerings.

In modern times in the Kirkland Temple we also learn about a Pentecost:

 Joseph wrote, “The Savior made his appearance to some, while angels ministered to others, and it was a Pentecost and an endowment indeed, long to be remembered, for the sound shall go forth from this place into all the world, and occurrences of this day shall be handed down upon the pages of sacred history, to all generations.” (History of the Church, 2:427–33.)